Tear Jerker / JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The 7th Stand User

• Should the protagonist accompany Polnareff to chase down J. Geil, they will be the one who gets shot by Hol Horse instead of Avdol. Even Hol Horse is horrified by this if the protagonist is female and breaks down into tears seeing that they're still alive.
  • Polnareff will be devastated regardless of whoever gets shot, but a female protagonist taking the bullet can be even more of a tearjerker when you think about it. Polnareff's motivation for traveling with the Crusaders is to avenge his sister Sherry's death, and if the protagonist's friendship with Polnareff is high enough, he'll call them by their nickname (if they have one). So if the protagonist is a female with a high friendship with Polnareff, it can be easy to imagine that seeing her get shot made Polnareff relive the day that he lost his sister, except now he gets to witness her death first hand. Granted, the protagonist survives, but Polnareff doesn't learn this until the fight with Judgement, where he's tormented by constructs of the two women he cared for yet couldn’t protect.
• Sadly, Avdol, Iggy, and Kakyoin's deaths are still set to stone. Even if you go on one of the character's ending routes, the other two cannot be saved.
• The Sacrifice ending. Seeing your companions being heartbroken and in denial about the protagonist's death is hard to read through.
• Alicia, Berlin, and Steel returning to their original timelines and saying goodbye to the protagonist after Vins is defeated.
• Both of Josuke's endings, full stop.
  • In the Bad Ending, he finds out he's not the real Josuke, but merely a construct made of the original's memories, Stand Disk, and the Protagonist's dead body. Vins kills Berlin, and without him, Josuke's body changes into the corpse of the Protagonist, realizing his life is a lie. Then Vins kills Alicia, cutting Josuke's life support.
  • In the Good Ending, Josuke defeats Vins and vanishes along with Alicia, Berlin, and Steel, the latter confessing that because Josuke is a construct of the original's memories and stand disk, he will not be returning to his timeline and life, but rather simply ceasing to be. Josuke asks if Morioh will be fine, and upon confirmation lets himself go. The only upshot is that Joseph will still have a chance to see the real Josuke again in some of his endings.
    Josuke: ....Will Morioh....Will my Morioh...be safe?
    Steel: .....Yes, safe and peaceful.
    Josuke: .....I see. *disappears in front of Jotaro*
• The Sanctuary Bonus Room, a room where all those who died during the story go, from Dio's minions to innocent bystanders. While some are unrepentant about their deeds, some are unaware about their deaths, which makes it tragic.
  • Captain Tenille (the real one, not the impostor with the Dark Blue Moon stand) and his sailors are not aware that they died, still acting like they're in their ship.
  • The rich beggar that found Dio's mansion laments that they couldn't take you there personally.
  • Utah solemnly warns you to avoid the Slaves of Fate unless you want to end up dead too. If you have high bad karma, he just glares at you.
  • One of the pedestrians killed by Dio is scared about how one minute he was walking down the streets, a car ran over him and now he's in a room full of strangers.
  • The bellboy killed by Devo isn't aware that he died and tries in vain to return to the hotel to go back to work.
  • Sade and Michel are reunited again, but the latter is sad that he couldn't protect the former.
  • Depending on the ending, Abdul, Kakyoin and Iggy might end in the room too. They're apalled to see the Protagonist is dead and are worried how Jotaro and the others are.
    Abdul: Tell Polnareff I'm sorry I couldn't keep our promise...
    Kakyoin: You should go home...I hate to see you in a place like this.
    Iggy: (Maybe I'll become the emperor of dogs in the world beyond...)
  • ALL of Kakyoin's lines, if he ends up dead. He doesn't want the Protagonist to end up suffering in the afterlife (see above quote) and he laments that even if he helped to solve the mystery about The World's power, he didn't amount to much.
• In the Chaos Mode, if you put the "Dissonance" trait, you get an abusive household (an alcoholic father, a bully sister and an emotionally abusive mother). They constantly criticized and insulted the Protagonist all the time, a sad contrast from the caring family from the standard mode.
  • The family is later captured by Dio's minions and forced to become a part of Joey's King Murderdoll Giant Mecha. The Protagonist acts like they don't know them and kills them along with Joey.
  • It's worse if you get the Iggy Ending. After the Protagonist returns from Egypt, they kicked them out of the house and forbade them from ever coming back. However the Protagonist isn't too torn about this, saying that they can use the money Joseph gave them as thanks for saving Holly to start a new life.....only for the money to quickly run out due to the Protagonist paying for all the troubles Iggy causes. It's one of the few endings in which the Protagonist ends worse than they were before.